Review: News of the Air by Jill Stukenberg
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this novel is its willingness to buck our society’s blind faith in technological progress and look to the tried-and-true past for solutions to the crises brought on by progress.
Review: King of Hope by Kim Conklin
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Kim Conklin’s King of Hope is a dark and heavy first novel about a town plagued by nuclear waste.
Last Light (miniseries review)
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
But overall this is a mess of a show with little discernible connection to the novel on which it’s supposedly based, and nothing substantive to say about the current world energy situation.
Review: The Unheard Song by Cary Neeper
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The plights of these two species shed invaluable light on the real-life situation we humans now face as a result of our shortsighted impacts on Earth’s ecology—but do so without hitting us over the proverbial head the way scenarios in a lesser novel might.
Review: An Inconvenient Apocalypse by Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The goal of An Inconvenient Apocalypse isn’t to try to convince people of the reality of humankind's environmental and societal crises. The book’s authors know that’s a fool's errand...
Review: Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Above all, Boys and Oil is a glorious tour de force of narrative nonfiction: a memoir that reads like the best kind of novel, with a gripping story and an astonishing sense of place, time and character.
A review of Ralph Meima’s Inter States trilogy
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Set in the eastern United States in the late fall of 2040, the novels chronicle five crucial weeks in the lives of migrants fleeing climate-driven hardships and political leaders doing their best to manage America’s tumble into history's dustbin.
Once You Know (documentary film review)
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
What does it mean to truly understand the reality of humankind’s ecological predicament, and what should you do with that understanding once you possess it?